| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book discusses literary and dramatic aspects of musical works for voices and instruments performed in English theatres (c.1650 and 1750). |
| Contents |
Purcell's "scurvy" poets / Roger Savage -- Opera as literature and the triumph of music / Martin Adams -- The British enchanters and George Granville's theory of opera / Wolfgang Hirschmann -- Lost chances: obstacles to English opera for Purcell and Handel / Jeffrey Barnouw -- Alexander's feast, or The power of perseverance: Dryden's plan for English opera and its near-fulfilment in a Handel ode / Andrew Pinnock and Bruce Wood -- Ombra mai fu: shades of Greece and Rome in the librettos for Handel's London operas / Peter Brown -- Handel and the uses of antiquity / Reinhard Strohm -- From Metastasio's Alessandro to Handel's Poro: a change of dramatic emphasis / Graham Cummings -- Deidamia as an "Heroi-comi-pastoral" opera / Sarah McCleave -- Seventeenth-century literary classics as eighteenth-century libretto sources: Congreve, Dryden and Milton in the 1730s and 1740s / Matthew Gardner -- "In this ballance seek a character": the role of "il moderato" in L'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato / Ruth Smith -- "Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures": glancing and gazing spectatorship in Handel's L'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato / Matthew Badham -- Accompanied recitative and characterisation in Handel's oratorios / Liam Gorry -- Handel, Charles Jennens and the advent of scriptural oratorio / John H. Roberts. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Opera -- England -- 17th century.
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Opera. |
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England. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Subject |
Opera -- England -- 18th century.
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| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice. |
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MUSIC -- Lyrics. |
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Timms, Colin, editor.
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Wood, Bruce, 1945- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Music in the London theatre from Purcell to Handel. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017 1107154642 9781107154643 (OCoLC)957240825 |
| ISBN |
9781108125574 (electronic book) |
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1108125573 (electronic book) |
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1107154642 |
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9781107154643 |
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